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Thanks for the info. I just signed up for the TXIPSC e-mail list. Match drives are not an issue as matches here in Southern CA are over and hour and more each way for me. Same for my practice range (76 miles each way). Though at Volente at least for personal practice I won't have to drive as I will have this dropped on the property. Meeting with them on the 11th of this month at their Vegas factory to discuss options etc... Gives me a 10 yard indoor range.

One thing to add to the questions asked via DM. So far on my Revolution I have upgraded or will upgrade (at their cost): Primer collator drum. Automatic powder dispenser assembly. Case feeder assembly. Primer disk. Primer sub plate Toolheads (waiting on parts to ship the ones I have). Basically, bringing my Revolution to the most current version. Since the past year a lot of improvements have been made to the press. I definitely would recommend it to anyone considering it, especially for the tech support which has been outstanding in my case. You can thank me later for basically being a beta tester.

I hope you never have to replace the short springs, they are a pain to replace. Took me an hour to get the old one out, I might have to take the whole thing apart to put in the new ones as the clamp holding them is not giving much clearance to put the new ones in.

Ah, I was looking under "Matches".

Hi, As I am putting my plans together for an upcoming move to Volente, TX (35 miles NE of Austin) I am looking to see if there are ongoing regular USPSA matches within a 75 minute drive. Any information will be appreciated (Practiscore was no help).

Mine started working 100% after I put it on the concrete floor and adjusted the Rheostat to be at the slowest speed that still allowed the primers to go into the tube.

What has happened between the brass and the metal is called Galvanic corrosion. Dissimilar metals begin a self deterioration process, and when that happens it causes a weld. The decapping pin is actually tearing the primer apart while pushing it out.

I haven't seen more than an occasional +/- 0.1 grain deviation (I check every 200 rounds or so) from my electronic powder measure since they replaced it with the new model.

I can't say much on that as I have the primer collator. However, when I was getting crushed primers it was due to brass having pieces of the old primer in them. Pre-processing the brass eliminated that issue. Here is an example.

On a .40 fastest I have run is 3,000 rph on a Revo with N320. Dwell of 3. Now, that is with processed brass which is rollsized, decapped, swaged, and sized.

Primer Orientation Sensor is available for sale now. https://www.markvii-loading.com/accessories/evolution-sensors/primer-orientation-sensor.html

Competition gun on top, carry gun on the bottom. Same manual of arms.

You are only a few hours drive from where Steve Anderson teaches in Ohio I think.

No, it is the piece that the metal disk slides into.You can see that the plastic lip rides up through the hole and ends up jamming the primer wheel.

If you have swage sense then you will get a "ringer" alarm if there still is a primer in the case.

Glad you like buying guns for the "cool factor". However, this is a shooters forum and most likely someone buying guns for the cool factor at the range rather than to shoot is not going to get much respect. Now, use it to make GM shooting minor in Limited with that gun and you WILL get respect.

Even if it is ready to go out of the box, it is a 9mm which will score minor in Limited (can't shoot 9mm major in Limited). I had looked at STI site as some people had said there was a .40 S&W version, but there is not.

From what I have seen on the first couple of videos where it was stand and shoot is that for your level your draw and reloads are really slow, no explosive movement of hands. Good news is that you don't need range time to improve those, just tons of dry fire. Rest of the stuff others have mentioned.

In regards to spare parts, I would also order the primer wheel guide (plastic part), it eventually will start to flex and ride up jamming the machine. It is a cheap part ($19 or so), but you are down until you replace it.

One last thing on this matter. The OP mentioned about talking to brass processors. I would not get the Revo with the collator system and just buy primed brass. One last thing on the machine to worry about, and also that is the part of the system that takes the most amount of maintenance/tuning. Also, that would bring the cost of the system down a bit as well.

7 - 10 yards from what I have seen personally. That "C" grip enabled a 15 year old girl to make GM last year in Production. Obviously she doesn't have the strength for a Vogel type of grip. Also, part of that grip is canting the wrist forward so the gun comes back down naturally. Tons of Ron Avery videos on YouTube demonstrating the whole thing.

I agree with the above. I own an engineering company (automation) and we will NOT sell some of our products without an installation and startup as well as a yearly maintenance contract where we visit clients once a month. That being said the Revolution is a pretty simple product to maintain.

When I said issues I meant out of spec parts of the presses, poor fit etc. that causes the machine not work properly. For example a not properly tuned primer bowl will cause a lot of upside down primers (I was at 5% in the beginning) but regular QA will not catch that as they do not make live ammo as part of the QA (as far as was told).

I have heard that as well from one person on this forum, and there might be others. That being said I have not heard anything specific per se. Also, if you go down there, set up your machines and run them I doubt you will have issues when they get shipped to you. I would make sure you test every bit of the process and even get components shipped there so you can make rounds during your testing.

OK. I am a Revolution owner that just hit a year on the product. Not a commercial user though, I processed only about 60K of brass (decap, swage, resize) and loaded about the same (swage, resize, prime...) since I had it. I run the machine at 3,500 rph setting for processing with no issues (I rollsize beforehand). I can run the machine at 3,000 rph setting but get issues with the bullet feeder a bit, so slow it down to 2,500 rph (effective rate of 2,300 due to dwell times etc.). Now, being an early buyer I did have some issues in the beginning. The powder measure got replaced, the primer bowl as well (to reduce flipped primers) in addition to other adjustments. I even had Dan come to my place to tune the machine and train me in maintenance for a day. All of these issues should be resolved right now in units being shipped. Doing 1,200+ rph should be no problem. There are several commercial users that use Revolutions. The BIGGEST factor in producing quality ammo with the Revolution is the quality of the brass. If you preprocess your brass or buy processed brass then I would not expect any issues. I ran a batch of 7,000 rounds last week (.40 S&W). The bullet sensor stopped the machine twice for upside down bullets, and I had 16 upside down primers. All passed case gauge (takes me longer to case gauge on a Hundo than actually make the rounds - lol). I checked powder every few hundred rounds and it was steady at 4.8 grains of N320. Seeing that you want to make ammo on day ONE and a commercial operation I would arrange for Dan to come and set your machines up on day ONE. The time saving on the learning curve would pay off the cost in the long run. PS. I am not a good enough shooter to be sponsored by Mark 7 and have no financial interest in the company.